March 28, 2006
Configure a switch
Yesterday John tells me we have a switch module coming in that needs to be installed and configured and he'll be off so I have it. I leave the house at 5:15 am, driving the cage 'cause it's raining. Arrive at work, have a cup of coffee while unpacking the module John placed on my desk. Borrow Wingo's laptop, grab the appropriate cable and adapter to connect the switch to the laptop's serial port, go over to the A building, call the NMC (except they had a name change and are not the NMC anymore but NMC is Network Maintanence Center which is what they do so that is what I call them.) Install the card and spend the next 90 minutes trying to get the switch to talk to the world. Since failure is not an option, we finally get it up and running.
Box up the old module and take it to FexEx and ship it back, head for breakfast (which is actually my lunch break.)
Posted by Paladin at March 28, 2006 07:56 PMtoo bad you're gonna have to do it again :)
the power jumped and the boot settings didn't keep on the MSFC. I'll walk you through